Portfolio brings Fournier on board for sales, acquisitions

Toronto-based Portfolio Entertainment has appointed Louis Fournier to the position of VP sales and acquisitions.

Toronto-based Portfolio Entertainment has appointed Louis Fournier to the position of VP sales and acquisitions. In the newly-created role, Fournier is tasked with setting the multi-platform sales direction for the company’s distribution arm, Portfolio International, and with expanding the company’s acquired international distribution rights in factual and lifestyle. Prior to working as a media consultant, Fournier was recently of VP business development at Tribal Nova, and from 2005 to 2008, served as president of Galakids, the children’s division of Galafilm Inc.

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